The meal ended very late. Lu Ming drove Mr. Dong, but An Yi got into Yuan Mingzhu's car.
After returning to the apartment, they naturally went back to their respective homes.
After saying good night to each other, the two couples separated.
"Brother Dong and Sister Dong have a very good relationship. I heard that Sister Dong even passed through the firefight area in order to reunite with Brother Dong. Sister Dong is quite brave."
After entering the door, Yuan Mingzhu said with a mixture of envy and emotion.
Lu Ming did not answer, but he was laughing in his heart. He thought it was very interesting. Even if Mingzhu was beaten to death, she would not believe the relationship between Brother Dong and Sister Dong.
Just when he saw the couple, he felt something was wrong. After eating this meal, he was absolutely sure that Mr. Dong and An Yi were not husband and wife, but comrades at work.
Could it be that the CCP wanted to expand its underground organization in Shanghai, so it sent in more people?
He smiled and stopped thinking about this problem. Of course, the underground organization of the Chinese Communist Party will develop and grow. This is also expected.
It is for this reason that Nanjing is very dissatisfied with Shanghai's institutions at all levels. The reorganization of the Blue Clothes Society is also related to the inability to detect the Communist Party.
The Blue Clothes Society was renamed Fuxing Society, and the chairman's first instruction was: put down the chores at hand and go all out to hunt down the underground organizations of the Chinese Communist Party.
"Why are you laughing? Am I right?" Yuan Mingzhu thought Lu Ming was making fun of her, and there was a hint of gunpowder in her words.
"What's wrong with you? Where's the anger coming from?" Lu Ming looked back at Yuan Mingzhu, feeling that something was even more wrong with her.
"What's wrong with me? Do you not welcome me here? Do I shouldn't come at all?" Yuan Mingzhu's anger escalated to a new level.
"Mingzhu, what's wrong with you? Do you have a fever and are confused?"
Lu Ming wanted to reach out and touch Mingzhu's forehead, but she pulled him away.
"Don't touch me. I don't have a fever. I'm fine."
Lu Ming didn't understand, so he simply ignored it. He knew Mingzhu's temperament. Even if he got angry, it would only last a few minutes, and he would be fine after that.
Lu Ming sat on the window sill, looking at the neon lights flashing on several tall buildings in the distance on a quiet spring night, feeling inexplicably irritable.
The fragrance of vegetation and flowers drifted in from the open window. Taking a breath made people feel refreshing and slightly tipsy.
On such a beautiful night, he couldn't be happy. He knew that it had nothing to do with Mingzhu, it was entirely due to his uneasiness.
Lu Ming did not continue to think about Mr. Dong and Mrs. Dong, nor did he pay attention to Mingzhu. He just stared out the window blankly, his mind going blank.
In the past, whenever Yuan Mingzhu loses her temper, he will immediately run away. After a long time, no matter how big the problem is, it will disappear. He is very experienced in this regard.
"Lu Ming, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you, I just envy Sister-in-law Dong." Yuan Mingzhu stayed by herself for a while, then came over and sat across from Lu Ming and said.
"Why are you apologizing? You know there is no need to say sorry between us." Lu Ming smiled, but still felt that something was wrong. Yuan Mingzhu seemed to be a different person today.
"I don't know what's wrong, I just feel so panicked and uncomfortable." Yuan Mingzhu stood up and leaned her head on Lu Ming's chest.
"Isn't it because of your heart discomfort? I'll take you to Tongren Hospital for a good check-up tomorrow." Lu Ming said worriedly.
"No, I know it myself, it's not a disease." Yuan Mingzhu shook her head.
"It's not a disease, what is it? A problem with women?" Lu Ming smiled helplessly.
Girls are like this. Sometimes they have inexplicable attacks. It may be due to physiological factors.
Lu Ming thought it was because Yuan Mingzhu was about to have her period, so she felt uncomfortable.
"No, forget it, I can't explain it to you anyway." Yuan Mingzhu shook her head.
"It's because you don't understand why, so you can't explain it." Lu Ming smiled.
Suddenly, the fragrance of flowers and grass became stronger, and he felt a throbbing, an impulse, and even a slight tingling sensation in his heart.
He suddenly understood what Yuan Mingzhu was feeling: it was the throbbing from spring, and the rhythm of nature reflected in people's bodies was the feeling of spring.
Although their teenage years have passed, their bodies still stay in that era. Girls yearn for youth, and boys naturally have impulses. They all want, one wants to get, and the other wants to give.
"Lu Ming, I don't want to continue like this. I don't want to see you only once a week and still be with everyone. I don't want this anymore. I want to see you every night, have dinner with you, and wake up every morning.
The first time I came here, I could see you smiling beside my pillow." Yuan Mingzhu said sincerely.
"Didn't we make plans to get married in half a year and live the life you mentioned every day? After a few years, you might get bored of it," Lu Ming said with a smile.
"But there's still half a year left. I want to live like this right away." Yuan Mingzhu shed tears quietly.
"Hey, don't cry." Lu Ming immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears.
Lu Ming was not afraid of Mingzhu losing his temper, but he was afraid that Mingzhu would shed tears. When Mingzhu burst into tears, he panicked.
"How about you stay with me for a while, and you can play by yourself during the day. I'll come back to eat with you at night, and I'll get up with you in the morning." Lu Ming thought for a while and said.
"No, in that case we would be unmarried and living together, and there would be gossip." Yuan Mingzhu shook her head.
"What are you afraid of if you gossip? We are not afraid of this." Lu Ming said.
"You're not afraid, but I'm afraid. After we announced the wedding date last time, my family didn't let me stay in Shanghai. They asked me to go home to prepare a dowry. In fact, they were afraid that we would be really together and embarrass them." Yuan
Mingzhu smiled bitterly.
Lu Ming said he was not afraid, but he was actually afraid.
What he was afraid of was not gossip. The gossip tabloids had created enough scandals for him in the past few years, and he never cared about them.
But what he is afraid of, he has never understood in the past few years.
Now he slowly figured it out. Firstly, he was afraid of taking responsibility, and secondly, he was worried about causing trouble to Mingzhu.
What he fears is that once he and Mingzhu become a couple, they will permanently lose the carefree life of a bachelor and fall into a nine-to-five routine.
Of course, his current status is special, such as planning the Hongqiao Park bombing, establishing a secret service school, frequent contacts with Andre and Mr. Dong, etc., which all pose certain risks.
It turned out that these things could be hidden from Mingzhu. Even if Mingzhu discovered something, he could still fool him.
Once you get married, you can't hide it if you want to. If you try hard to hide it, misunderstandings will inevitably occur.
The result of not being able to hide it is that it naturally brings all kinds of troubles to Mingzhu.
Over the years, he has never crossed a red line with any girl. What he fears is that once he has a relationship, he will have to shoulder the corresponding responsibilities.
After all, he is still a big boy who doesn't want to take responsibility and just wants to enjoy life.
There is an ambiguity between him and Du Juan. He has repeatedly encouraged Du Juan to live a new life of his own. Doesn't he also want to shoulder this responsibility?
Even he himself couldn't explain this clearly.
Morally speaking, of course he admires the monogamy advocated by Western Christianity, but over the years there have been some women he was really attracted to, but he just stayed away because he was afraid of the responsibility.
At this time, Mingzhu had leaned into his arms like a kitten, rubbing her face against his chest.
Lu Ming felt a burning sensation in his heart, but he had to restrain himself.
He warned himself in his heart, not for anything else, just to prevent the parents of both parties from being embarrassed as Mingzhu said.
In the 1930s, under the impact of Western ideological trends, Shanghai's anti-traditional ethics and ideological emancipation were at the forefront of the country, and the phenomenon of unmarried cohabitation was very common.
Most of these people are young literary and artistic people who yearn for Western life, absorb Western ideas, and pursue personalized lifestyles.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that many young people from other places come to Shanghai to make a living. Young people who are not with their parents are like birds flying out of their cages, free and unrestrained.
Most of this type of thought comes from European Catholic countries, rather than the United States, where Protestantism dominates. The United States only became the leader in the so-called ideological liberation after the end of World War II.
"What's wrong with you?" Mingzhu sensitively felt Lu Ming's change.
"Yeah, ah, it's okay..." Lu Ming snorted in pain, and his voice even trailed off.
"Are you...like me, feeling so depressed?" Mingzhu suddenly burst into laughter.